Mohammad Abdur Rashid

Mohammad Abdur Rashid is a Bangladeshi academic and vice-chancellor of the Islamic Arabic University. He is a member of the Sharia advisory board of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission.

Rashid is a professor of the Department of Islamic studies at the University of Dhaka.

Early life Rashid did his bachelor's degree and masters in Islamic Studies at the University of Dhaka in 1988 and 1989 respectively. He completed his PhD at the University of Dhaka in 2002.

Rashid was appointed to the Sharia advisory board of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission. On 1 June 2020, Rashid was appointed provost of Kabi Jashim Uddin Hall of the University of Dhaka. He replaced Mohammad Ahsan Ullah, whose term was investigated by the Ministry of Education and the University Grants Commission over irregularities in recruitment. In July, he was appointed director of Dr. Serajul Haque Centre for Islamic Research.

On 24 January 2024, Rashid was appointed convenor of a committee to investigate a story about a transgender woman in a high school textbook of the national curriculum.